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⚙️Apple Platform Updates
- Apple Platform Deployment: Welcome, What’s new, Document revision history
🔐Security and Privacy
- Nothing’s iMessage app was a security catastrophe, taken down in 24 hours – Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica
- What Mac Security Researchers Actually Do – Devin Byrd, Kandji Blog
- How to stop fake System notifications on macOS – Pieter Arntz, Malwarebytes
🔨Support and HowTos
- Apple IT Essentials: PKGs and Software Deployment – Kandji Blog
- macOS Sonoma: A Guide to Your System Settings – HCS Technology Group
- Enrolling your VM into Jamf Pro – Rob Potvin
♻️Updates and Releases
- Jamf Pro 11.1.0: Release Notes, Blog (with videos)
- Munki 6.3.5 Beta 1
- Universal Print makes cloud printing truly “universal” – Robert Cunningham, Windows IT Pro Blog
🎧To Listen
- Fleet’s new script execution capabilities – Apple @ Work Podcast, 9to5Mac
- Oleg Stukalenko on Moonlock – Mac Admins Podcast
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